Journal
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
Volume 170, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2022.112994
Keywords
Energy equity; Energy intensity; Energy efficiency policy; South Asia; Index decomposition method; Regression analysis
Funding
- German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) , Germany
- Brandenburg State Ministry for Science, Research and Culture (MWKF) , Germany
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Energy efficiency is a globally promoted measure to address growing energy demand and reduce energy intensity and emissions. Analysis showed that energy equity factors strongly influence energy intensity, emphasizing the importance of considering equity in sustainable energy efficiency policies.
Energy efficiency is promoted worldwide as an important measure to address growing energy demand and reduce energy intensity of the gross domestic product and emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. We analyzed aggregate and sectoral energy intensities in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka during 2000-2017 and decomposed the aggregate energy intensity into its four key determinants. Past energy intensity analysis methods have often used changes in factors related to only energy and economic structure and ignored energy equity factors. We show that energy equity factors (access to electricity and per capita electricity con-sumption) strongly influence the energy intensity of a country/region. In countries with less than 100% access to electricity, changes in energy equity factors negatively affected energy intensity while changes in energy structure and income level improved it. Energy equity is an important consideration for assessment, development and implementation of sustainable energy efficiency policies of a country.
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